Even geniuses make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes turn out to be genius in their own right, helping to illuminate some underlying mystery or impacting the way an entire field thinks.
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Michael J. Holstine, business manager at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia tells NBC’s Kevin Tibbles that the steerable radio telescope, which is the largest in the world, can “peer back to just after the big bang.”

Rachel Maddow relays video of a speech by Rep. Paul Broun in which he describes evolution, embryology, and the big bang theory as "lies straight from the pit of hell,” and lists other Republican congressmen who reject science yet regrettably serve on the House Science Committee.

One Georgia Congressman on the House Committee on Science says evolution and the Big Bang are "lies from the pit of Hell." In the Rewrite, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell looks at some of the things in scripture that "Bible-thumping Republicans" probably don't really believe.